Other

• "Programming Pearls", Jason Bock
• Clarified CQRS, Udi Dahan
• What are those little overlay icons: Windows 7 edition, Raymond Chen
• 'Trillion-node network' arrives: we need smart design more than ever, Joe McKendrick
• PowerShell is all about enabling you. Even the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) can be extended (via PowerShell of course), Christmas Icons, Icons and Win 7 Themes, and Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 released, Greg Duncan
• Another Virtual Memory Tip, Brian Harry
• "Magic" null argument testing, Jon Skeet
• What to do when your system misbehave, chfok
• A Tour Through the Parallel Programming Samples for .NET 4, toub
• Real World Benefits From Loose Coupling, Inversion Of Control And Dependency Injection, Davy Brion

PDC

• PDC09 Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp videos now online and available, Greg Duncan

Visual Studio 2010

• Creating extensions for VS 2010, Somasegar

Code to look at

• WCF Cache, Alexandru Cibotari
• WCF SOA Patterns: Anti-Pattern: Behavior Attributes, M Sheik Uduman Ali

Web

• Interesting Chrome Extensions, Philipp Lenssen
• InfoQ interview on ASP.NET MVC in Action now published, Jeffrey Palermo
• GeoAPI Adds User Creation, Foursquare, YouTube, And Weatherbug Data, MG Siegler

Silverlight

• Silverlight 3 / Expression Lab Posted, Christoph Schittko

Database

• T-SQL Tuesday #001 (Date/Time Tricks): The Roundup, Adam Machanic
• SQL Server 2008 does not always script out all tables, Buck Woody

Agile

• “Ideal” Team Size and Ratios, Johanna

Cloud Computing

• Governance isn't just for on-premise services anymore, Joe McKendrick
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/9/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy, Phil Wainewright
• AWS Import/Export Goes Global and Amazon EC2 Running Microsoft Windows Server 2008, AWS Blog
• REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 3: wrap-up), William Vambenepe

Career

• Be Strategic Not Scattershot to Make Networking Pay Off, Julie Lenzer Kirk
• What is Your Biggest Weakness?, Brent Ozar
• Trick Yourself Into Working Better, Darrell Etherington
• How to Track Freelance Job Leads Via Spreadsheet, Celine Roque
• 10 Characteristics of Superior Leaders, Entrepreneur.com
• Annual Review: 2009 Life Lessons, Chris Guillebeau

Business

• Make Fast Money Blogging Products – My Reaction, Darren Rowse
• The Great Leaders Series: Michael Dell, Founder of Dell Computer, Kasey Wehrum

Innovation

• How customer insights lead to new innovations, Jeffrey Phillips
• Innovation Takes Time..., Paul Williams

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 9, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 9, 2009, Cloud Feed
• Everyman Links for December 9, 2009, Dave Burke
• The Morning Brew #495, Chris Alcock